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when i read michelle´s new theme ("cut it out") i thought: super!! but somehow the month rushes by and i haven´t made a single cut so far... (i only have old carving plates and i´m not sure they still press well... but actually: i can´t get my ass sat down;))

so i decided i would first make a post about my first carvings, sort of "back to the roots"...

but you can also make a second stamp instead of a stencil, as you see with this cat-sample:

für heute reichts damit... ich hab massen von selbstgeschnitzten und vielleicht mag ich ja nochmal einen post dazu machen... spätestens wenn ich wieder mal was neues geschnitzt habe, versprochen!:))enough for today... i have a lot of erasercarved stamps and maybe i will be in the mood to make another post... at least when i do something new, i promise to show you:))

so the story begins: long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness.

my old coat...

i´m *going pregnant* with this work for quite a long while now... i think it has been in my mind for more than one year now. finally i got started today...
theme is an indian legend (told in "northern exposure" by marilyn whirlwind):

A long time ago, the raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden by a selfish old chief. So the raven turned itself into a spruce needle and floated on the river where the chief's daughter came for water. She drank the spruce needle. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy which was the raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with. As soon as he had the light, the raven turned back into himself and carried the light into the sky. From then on, we no longer lived in darkness.

i took an old coat from the 80ies (i had loved it so much i couldn´t throw it away lol!) and cut out 6 pieces which will be the fabric base for the story. i don´t know at that point whether i will connect them to form a wallhanging, make a book out of them or whatever...

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About Me

hello,

my name is johanna and i´m a paper & fabric junkie, a mixed-media-artist living in germany. i also love photography and got hooked on digital photo-editing, too.married for 35 years, 2 grown up boys & 1 cat.